As literary
hoaxes go, Edmond Caldwell perpetuated a relatively small one - but he clearly
got his intended target's goat.

This summer, the Boston Book Festival printed and distributed 30,000 free
copies of Richard Russo's short story "The Whore's Child" as part of Boston's
second annual "One City, One Story" program (read my interview with him about his selection here).

We're going to go out on a limb and bet that you'll never find yourself listening in on a conversation between these four people again. Thankfully, we've got it on tape. So here it is: this year's "Far Out Fiction" event from the 2011 BOSTON BOOK FESTIVAL.